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Against Me! (Saturday) Laura Jane Grace put in plenty of miles to road-test “Transgender Dysphoria Blues,” her latest album with the punk-rockers Against Me! The singer has recently hit the highway in spates of small acoustic performances, when she offered stripped-down takes on that record’s bracing, autobiographical accounts of gender reassessment. Part of the Northside Festival; with Mitski and Cayetana. At 3:30 p.m., McCarren Park, 776 Lorimer Street, at Bayard Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, northsidefestival.com; free with RSVP via website. (Stacey Anderson)
★ Best Coast (Saturday) The purveyors of the most darling cover art of 2012 — a bear embracing the state of California, for the album “The Only Place” — the surf-pop duo Best Coast frolics in sunny, lo-fi pop worthy of its Los Angeles environs. The group’s harsher topics dissipate the blissful haze in favor of scabrous, catchy garage-rock, especially on the newly released “California Nights.” Part of the Northside Festival with Built to Spill, Alvvays and Bully. At 6 p.m., Bushwick Inlet Park, 50 Kent Avenue, at North 12th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, northsidefestival.com. (Anderson)
Blonde Redhead (Saturday) This New York trio, once synonymous with acidic 1990s noise-rock, now dispatches burbling shoe-gaze with nods to its art-school roots. On its excellent 2004 album, “Misery Is a Butterfly,” the singer Kazu Makino hissed stream-of-consciousness observations, and the band’s instrumentalist twin brothers, Simone and Amedeo Pace, maintained chilly, unpredictable guitar and drum textures that set the tone for their future releases. Their ninth studio album, “Barragán,” released in September, was more minimalist. Part of the Northside Festival. At 9 p.m., Warsaw, 261 Driggs Avenue, at Eckford Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, 866-777-8932, northsidefestival.com. (Anderson)
Chastity Belt (Tuesday) A post-punk quartet with gravitas underneath its singsong vocals and calamity barely contained in its taut guitar riffs, Chastity Belt pulls no punches on its second album, “Time to Go Home.” This all-female group hails from Seattle, and while coastal influences can be heard in its surf-inflected strings, its elegantly expressed agitation defies ZIP codes. With Happy You and Shadow Walker. At 8 p.m., Baby’s All Right, 146 Broadway, near Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, babysallright.com. (Anderson)
Zola Jesus (Sunday) This Russian-American sphinx, born Nika Roza Danilova, mixes her piercing wail with electro-industrial melodicism. Her 2013 album, “Versions,” was a set of collaborative remixes with the avant-garde composer JG Thirlwell that landed like a heavy screed from Siouxie Sioux. The dark momentum lessened not the slightest on “Taiga,” an even more brooding, dark-wave solo effort released last fall. Part of the Northside Festival; with Blanck Mass and Container. At 7 p.m., Warsaw, 261 Driggs Avenue, at Eckford Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, 866-777-8932, warsawconcerts.com. (Anderson)
Tove Lo (Monday) This young electropop singer has been called “the Swedish Kesha” for her party-hearty, debauched lyrics. Her debut album, “Queen of the Clouds,” is broken into three groups of tracks — “The Sex,” “The Love” and “The Pain” — and has some sharp hook writing, similar to her contributions to works by Icona Pop and Lea Michele. With Vérité. At 9 p.m., Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 North Sixth Street, Brooklyn, 718-486-5400, musichallofwilliamsburg.com. (Anderson)
Barry Manilow (Wednesday) Mr. Manilow, one of the most successful and clement adult-contemporary artists of the 1970s, is in a collaborative spirit. Last year he released “My Dream Duets,” a dubious endeavor that wedged his vocals into harmony with such dearly departed folks as Marilyn Monroe, Whitney Houston and Frankie Lymon. At 7:30 p.m., Barclays Center, 620 Atlantic Avenue, at Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, 800-745-3000, barclayscenter.com. (Anderson)
Holly Miranda (Saturday) In the right mood, on the right stage, the Detroit singer-songwriter Ms. Miranda will belt her absolutely debilitating cover of Etta James’s “I’d Rather Go Blind.” Most tracks from her hazy, self-titled second blues-pop solo album, released this year, offer similarly gorgeous torture. With Coastgaard. At 8 p.m., Knitting Factory, 361 Metropolitan Avenue, at Havemeyer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 347-529-6696, bk.knittingfactory.com. (Anderson)
Pusha T (Saturday) When Kanye West needed a priapic Hyde to his emo Jekyll for his hit “Runaway,” he knew the man to call: Pusha T, the extra-swaggering half of the rap duo Clipse. His first solo studio album, “Mercy,” on Def Jam Records and Mr. West’s label, G.O.O.D. Music, landed in 2013; its broad beats and hook-laden posture were appropriately, beautifully dark. With Vince Staples and D.J. Envy. At 8 p.m., House of Vans, 25 Franklin Street, at Meserole Avenue, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, vans.com/almostsummer. (Anderson)
★ Damien Rice (Wednesday) The sparse video for “I Don’t Want to Change You,” a single off Mr. Rice’s third album, “My Favourite Faded Fantasy,” pins down the essence of this Irish folk-pop singer-songwriter in close-ups of tortured expressions, swaths of blue landscape and quiet, implacable confidence. His convulsing dance break midsong is a welcome, impish interlude. Mr. Rice found his greatest stateside fame to date on the soundtrack to the Mike Nichols film “Closer” in 2004, his sparse, beseeching folk balladry perfectly amplifying the emotional carnage on-screen. He performs in a benefit concert of the Celebrate Brooklyn! festival. At 7:30 p.m., Prospect Park Bandshell, Prospect Park West and Ninth Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn, 718-683-5600, bricartsmedia.org/cb. (Anderson)
Nate Ruess (Wednesday) The New York power-pop trio Fun.’s ubiquitous “We Are Young,” a drink-sodden anthem featuring a featherweight hook by Janelle Monae, is serious business: one of the top-selling singles of 2012. The band’s second studio album, “Some Nights,” wrapped emo-rock squirming in Queen’s theatricality. The frontman Mr. Ruess’s first solo album, “Grand Romantic,” is set for release on Tuesday. At 8 p.m., Webster Hall, 125 East 11th Street, East Village, 212-353-1600, websterhall.com. (Anderson)
★ Run the Jewels (Sunday) Hip-hop’s most inseparable duo, the dirty South lyricist Killer Mike and the New York rapper-producer El-P, have enjoyed intertwined careers over the past few years: Killer Mike appeared on El-P’s skittish, psychedelic “Cancer4Cure,” and El-P produced Killer Mike’s terrific, socially incisive “R.A.P. Music.” Together they perform as Run the Jewels and released their confrontational, somewhat paranoid, second album, “Run the Jewels 2,” last October. Thanks to a Kickstarter campaign, the album is currently undergoing a remix consisting of cat noises called “Meow the Jewels.” What stand-up lads. Part of the Northside Festival; with Sleigh Bells and Vince Staples. At 7 p.m., Bushwick Inlet Park, Kent Avenue at North 12th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, northsidefestival.com. (Anderson)
★ Songhoy Blues (Monday and Tuesday) The Malian desert blues band made a snazzy United States debut in March with several shows in New York City. When it opened for Alabama Shakes at the Beacon Theater, the band was joined by one of the producers of its album, Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. “Circling through their modal guitar lines and galloping along on their drumbeats, the songs were insistent and determined but also headed for the ecstatic,” Jon Pareles wrote about Songhoy Blues in The New York Times. Monday at 8 p.m., Rough Trade, 64 North Ninth Street, at Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, roughtradenyc.com; Tuesday at 6:30 p.m., Mercury Lounge, 217 East Houston Street, at Ludlow Street, Lower East Side, 800-745-3000, mercuryloungenyc.com. (Anderson)
★ Spoon (Tuesday and Wednesday) These stevedore rockers from Texas have blasted out catchy, unpretentious indie rock for 20 years — and they’ve even done some solid Prince imitations along the way. The band’s latest release, “They Want My Soul,” is its most riotously rocking yet, packed with sharp choruses and guitar theatrics. With the Antlers. Tuesday at 8 p.m., Kings Theater, 1027 Flatbush Avenue, near Tilden Avenue, Brooklyn, kingstheatre.com; Wednesday at 9 p.m., The Wick, 260 Meserole Street, near Bushwick Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, thewicknyc.com. (Anderson)
The Month in Cabaret This June, it’s the rare month when men dominate New York cabaret. Alan Cumming, the chameleonic entertainer and Scottish Renaissance man continues his sold-out engagement at Café Carlyle through Saturday. He will be followed there Tuesday through June 27 by Tony Danza, a cheerful, charming vaudevillian who recently starred on Broadway in “Honeymoon in Vegas.” Mr. Danza does a little bit of everything quite well. Both he and Mr. Cumming have never played the Café, which has enjoyed a booming season. Tuesdays through Saturdays at 8:45 p.m., additional shows on June 12 and Saturdays at 10:45 p.m., 35 East 76th Street, Manhattan, 212-744-1600, thecarlyle.com. At Birdland, through Saturday, the magisterial jazz singer, note-bender and rhythmic wizard Kurt Elling will be appear in conjunction with his new album “Passion World.” At 8:30 and 11 p.m., 315 West 44th Street, Clinton, 212-581-3080, birdlandjazz.com. At 54 Below, a club that has earned its sobriquet “Broadway’s Supper Club,” the pop-jazz chanteuse Ann Hampton Callaway is playing on Thursday through June 20 and 25. And on June 22, the ingenuous heartthrob Jeremy Jordan from “Bonnie and Clyde,” “Smash” and “The Last Five Years” begins an engagement that continues through July 3. At 7 p.m., 254 West 54th Street, Manhattan, 646-476-3551, 54below.com. (Stephen Holden)
Train (Tuesday) No longer content to dominate adult-contemporary pop radio with their hit “Drops of Jupiter,” the San Francisco band announced last summer that they would be fermenting said precipitation, too. Drain your own bottle of Drops of Jupiter petite sirah-based red wine during an evening of selections from Train’s latest album, “Bulletproof Picasso.” We won’t make a joke about where to locate the cheese. With the Fray and Matt Nathanson. At 7 p.m., Nikon at Jones Beach Theater, 800-745-3000, nikonjonesbeach.com. (Anderson)
Tyler, the Creator (Friday) Belligerent, violent, chauvinistic — the Los Angeles rapper Tyler, the Creator packs lyrics that make his fans flinch, yet spout them with an elastic and frequently hilarious delivery that mends the unease. A lead member of Odd Future until his reported recent departure, he riffed with Kanye West and Schoolboy Q on his third solo album, “Cherry Bomb,” released in April. With Taco, as should we all be. At 7 p.m., Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Place, at 15th Street, 212-777-6800, irvingplaza.com. (Anderson)
★ The Very Best (Friday) The Malawian singer Esau Mwamwaya and the Swedish producer Johan Hugo deftly twine hip-hop, jazz and traditional African dance into swift-moving, mindful pop celebrations. Their new album, “Makes a King,” follows the collaborative example of their sensational 2012 effort, “MTMTMK,” by including cameos from Chris Baio of Vampire Weekend and the Senegalese singer Baaba Maal. Part of the Northside Festival. Performances begin at 5 p.m., McCarren Park, 776 Lorimer Street, at Bayard Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, northsidefestival.com; free. (Anderson)
Paul Weller (Friday) The Modfather’s well-deserved comeback was a shared victory with punk rock itself: In 2012, his 11th studio album, “Sonik Kicks,” defeated the hyper-trendy house D.J. David Guetta for the top spot on the British album charts. Mr. Weller revisits it and, fans hope, tracks from his widely influential past groups the Jam and the Style Council. He just released the follow-up, “Saturns Pattern.” With Hannah Cohen. At 8 p.m., Terminal 5, 610 West 56th Street, Clinton, 800-745-3000, terminal5nyc.com. (Anderson)
★ WOW (Women of the World) Festival (through Sunday) This run of concerts, panels and workshops focuses on women’s rights and related social issues, and is the first American extension of a popular annual event in London. Musical performances — many free — span genres and generations and include the soul-R&B singer Macy Gray, the folk and blues singer-songwriter Toshi Reagon, the Malaysian pop singer Yuna and more. At various times, Apollo Theater, 253 West 125th Street, Harlem, 800-745-3000, wowapollo.com. (Anderson)
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